Specific Technician - Santa Maria (Açores)

For more than 35 years, Thales has been operating in Portugal, delivering innovative solutions for the global Defence and Aerospace markets. Through a highly skilled technical team, we develop and support critical systems across land, sea, air, space and cyberspace, helping our customers operate safely and securely.

We are currently looking for a Maintenance Operator/Specific Technician to join Thales Portugal at our Santa Maria Teleport!

As part of our team, you will play a key role in ensuring the availability, reliability and longevity of one of Thales' critical satellite communication infrastructures. You will be responsible for carrying out preventive and corrective maintenance activities, supporting the continuous operation of the teleport and coordinating with internal teams and external service providers whenever required.

Responsibilities:

• Perform preventive and corrective maintenance activities across the teleport infrastructure, including buildings, antennas, power supply systems, HVAC equipment and supporting facilities;

• Monitor infrastructure performance, identify potential failures and support timely fault diagnosis and resolution;

• Coordinate maintenance activities with engineering, operations teams and external service providers;

• Maintain maintenance records and ensure compliance with safety, quality and operational procedures;

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of infrastructure reliability, availability and operational efficiency;

• Ensure the facility and its surrounding areas are maintained according to operational and safety standards.

Requirements:

• Technical qualification or degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience);

• Previous experience in facilities maintenance, industrial maintenance or critical infrastructure environments;

• Knowledge of electrical, mechanical and HVAC systems;

• Experience coordinating maintenance activities with external service providers is a plus;

• Availability to work on-site in Santa Maria, Azores.

The Group invests more than €4 billion per year in Research & Development in key areas, particularly for critical environments, such as Artificial Intelligence, cybersecurity, quantum and cloud technologies.

In 2024, the Group generated sales of €20.6 billion.
For our more than 83,000 employees in 68 countries we open up visionary perspectives, realise individual career paths and enable creative freedom. This is achieved with courage, versatility and the firm intention to make the demanding challenges of our time safer and more inclusive. With our sustainable value-focused management we support diversity actively.

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At times of change our international teams are ready to meet the complexity of today with the industry-leading technologies of tomorrow. Will you be part of it? Your contact Tiago Vital is looking forward to your online application on our Career Portal.

Tiago Vital – Talent Acquisition Partner

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